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Many people don't have the time or expertise to build a new system so there is still a large market for pre-built computers. There are quite a number of companies who will happily build you a gaming machine, from the smaller custom builders such as PCSpecialist to the large multinational companies such as Dell/Alienware.
Today we are going to look at a gaming machine from a company called Palicomp. You may not have heard of them before but they have actually been around for over ten years.
We are going to be looking at the Palicomp Alpha Pulse which is one of their custom gaming systems. It's priced around the £1400 inc. VAT mark and features an overclocked Core-i7 processor and a top-end nVidia GeForce GTX 670 graphics card.
Specification
- CPU: Intel Core i7 3770K @ 4.6 GHz
- Motherboard: Asus P8Z77V
- Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16 GB (4x 4GB) 1866 MHz
- System Drive: Crucial M4 128 GB
- Storage Drive: Seagate Barracuda 2 TB (7200 RPM)
- Optical Drive: Blu-Ray / DVD-RW
- Graphics Card: Palit GeForce GTX 670
- Case: Thermaltake Overseer RX-I
- Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
looks like a good selection of components but im not impressed with the case either. Thermaltake make shoddy cases generally. low cost materials etc.
looks like a nice system, but id rather build my own, as Henry said, dont like this case at all.
Just like me if you are a great fan of gaming computers then you should check out the online shop.
£1399.99 now…
Price increases in this case are reasonable and understandable.
The world’s components are traded in dollars.
At the time it was reviewed, the US dollar was relatively weak – with a value of around $1.65 to £1
The pound now only buys just over $1.50 – which is a drop of almost 10%
That 10% movement will translate into a cost increase of around the same value
If a company submits a machine for review and changes it within 28 days, then we will launch a FULL investigation… But a change after many months where the source of the change is (a) clear and (b) outside the supplier’s control is fine
We hope you agree 🙂